GATT Disputes Data, 1948-1994

Data last updated:  January 1, 1996.
This page updated:  November 17, 1997.

Compiler:

Eric Reinhardt
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322
Voice: (404) 727-4977
Fax: (404) 727-4586
Email: erein@emory.edu
WWW: http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~erein/

The GATT Disputes Data lists individual instances of dyadic trade disputes
conducted under the purview of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
between 1948 and 1994.  See the following Web site for more information:
http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~erein/data/#GATT.

The nucleus of this dataset was provided by Robert Hudec, Enforcing
International Trade Law.

For complete documentation on case selection, coding criteria for all
variables, see Eric Reinhardt, Posturing Parliaments: Cooperating on Trade
in an Uncertain World, forthcoming book ms, esp. chapter 4 and its
appendices.


The Files

The files related to this dataset are described below:

 Filename         Format
 gattdisp.por     SPSS portable (or export) file
 gattdisp.xls     Microsoft Excel spreadsheet file (v 3.0)
 gattdisp.dat     ASCII comma-delimited file
 gattdisp.dta     Stata data file (v 4.0)

